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In article <1992Aug11.204921.22923@exu.ericsson.se> exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
  
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>The real (and more interesting) work is in developing data
>structures and algorithms and _gameplay_.  These recent discussions

  You're right.  This is more interesting, and, for creating a good game,
more important - in a way.

>give the impression that a game should be based around some
>hot new graphics algorithm or hardware programming technique
>(and that's the same impression I get from Wolfenstein 3-D).

 (I felt that way, too.  The gameplay... ah... sucked, and the game itself
  became annoyingly repetitive [maze after maze after...].  The graphics
  didn't even seem that good as I'd just started playing Ultima Underworld,
  which is a far better game.)

>Difficult as it may be to accept, there are still thousands and
>thousands of really entertaining games which could be written
>for CGA cards (or even 80x50 text mode).  All the techie
>stuff just doesn't matter (and from a game design perspective,
>it isn't all that interesting).

  The "techie stuff" does matter, though.  Without it all the good games
 that might be out there would just be algorithms scribbled on napkins - if
 that.  Graphics are VITALLY important to a game - a perfectly good game
 can be easily wrecked by badly drawn or badly programmed graphics. 

>
>And let's try to remember that not everybody owns an MS-DOS
>based computer...
>

  Now this argument doesn't make ANY sense.  Without MS-DOS questions, this
newsgroup would be DEAD.  Just because nobody is asking questions about
other platforms (or game design in general) doesn't mean there's anything
wrong with asking IBM-specific stuff.  And a few of the discussions, such
as texture-mapping, have been aimed towards DOS but could just as easily
be applied to any other system.

>--
>James Hague   
>exuhag@exu.ericsson.se

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